Groveland Improvement Co. v. Farmers' Supply Co.

Citations

• 25 Wash. 344
• 65 P. 529
• 1901 Wash. LEXIS 398

Syllabus

<p>CONVERSION-EVIDENCE.</p> <p>In an action hy a corporation for the conversion of a quantity of hay, where a lease by plaintiff to defendant of the lands upon which the hay was grown was put in evidence by the latter, plaintiff is entitled, on rebuttal, to show that the officers executing the lease had intruded into office and had acted without authority, and that that fact was known to defendant when it accepted the lease.</p> <p>CORPORATIONS-INVALID CONTRACTS-RATIFICATION BY RECEIVER.</p> <p>The acceptance by the receiver of a corporation of rents reserved under an invalid lease which had been executed by intruders into the corporate offices, does not amount to a ratification, where the receiver had no knowledge of all the material facts and circumstances surrounding the lease.</p>